New Pathways to Job Creation and Development in Africa

Brahima Coulibaly is Edward Bernstein scholar, Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development program at The Brookings Institution after previously serving as director of the program’s Africa Growth Initiative. He joined Brookings from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System where he was chief economist and head of the emerging market and developing economies group. John Page is Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of UNU-WIDER. His previous publications include the 2009 UNIDO Industrial Development Report Breaking in and Moving Up: Industrial Challenges for the Bottom Billion and the Middle-Income Countries and Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in Industry.Richard Newfarmer is the Country Director for Uganda and Rwanda at the International Growth Centre. Previously, he was the World Bank’s Special Representative to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, after a career working with the Bank in China, East Asia and Latin America. In 2018, he co-edited Industries without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered.Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He serves on the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), and holds a prestigious SARChI Chair in Economic Growth, Poverty and Inequality Research. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a UNU-WIDER Board Member.

• List of Abbreviations1 From Deindustrialization to Job Creation:New Perspectives on African GrowthChris Heitzig, Richard Newfarmer, and John Page2 Opportunities for Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa:Progress and ProspectsLouise Fox and Dhruv Ghandi3 Rwanda: Harnessing the Power of the Next GenerationRichard Newfarmer and Anna Twum4 Uganda: Leaving Agriculture in Search of Progress on TransformationMadina Guloba, Medard Kakuru, Jakob Rauschendorfer, and Sarah Ssewanyana5 Ethiopia: Building on Manufacturing Momentum to Create New Jobs in Other SectorsTsegay Gebrekidan Tekleselassie6 Senegal: Overcoming Stagnant Industrialization with New Sources of Job CreationAhmadou Aly Mbaye, Fatou Gueye, Assane Beye, Abdou Khadir Dia, and Massaer Mbaye7 Ghana: Beyond Jobless Growth to Productive EmploymentErnest Aryeetey, Priscilla Twumasi, and Festus Ebo Turkson8 Kenya: Linking Manufacturing and Industries without Smokestacks to Drive TransformationBoaz Munga, Eldah Onsomu, Nancy Laibuni, Humphrey Njogu, Adan Shibia, and Samantha Luseno9 Zambia: From Mineral Dependence to Skill Development in New SectorsAnand Rajaram, Dennis Chiwele, and Mwanda Phiri10 South Africa: In Search of an Employment Escape to a Growth PathCaitlin Allen, Zaakhir Asmal, Haroon Bhorat, Robert Hill, Jabulile Monnakgotla, Morne Oosthuizen, and Christopher Rooney11 Policies to Create Productive Jobs in Africa: Unleashing Industries without SmokestacksChris Heitzig, Richard Newfarmer, and John PageContributors